THQ in bad shape

I love the DOW and COH series of games. I really hope they continue without publishers destroying the franchise. At least give us COH2!
 
Even in an administration situation you can expect to see CoH2 come out. The insolvency practitioner is tasked with wringing every last drop of value out of the company for the creditors, so to kill a near completed release (where the cost is already sunk but the profits are yet to be realised) would make no sense at all. It is the titles that are much further from publication (Dark Millenium, I'm looking at you) that are at huge risk of being shelved.

Assuming THQ does die you can expect the likes of Relic to be hawked off to another publisher once CoH2 has come out.
 
I seriously hope Volition get picked up by someone other than EA or Activision, Heck even Ubisoft would be a sigh of relief.
 
Energizer Bunny said:
Even in an administration situation you can expect to see CoH2 come out. The insolvency practitioner is tasked with wringing every last drop of value out of the company for the creditors, so to kill a near completed release (where the cost is already sunk but the profits are yet to be realised) would make no sense at all
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I don't have any foundation in the legal situation so maybe not an issue but I'd have thought problems with form around how you actually pay the dev studio / staff to complete the game (i.e. cashflow - where does the money come from?), even if completing the game is likely to realise revenue in future - I suppose you could maybe get some sort of financial backing from somebody on that basis but can the funding actually be used in that way rather than going to creditors?

From a gamer's perspective, you'd imagine that even if a game is released it will be rushed, buggy, and have little in the way of post-release support as there won't be any budget from the publisher to pay for it.
 
Jackaby said:
I'm pretty sure they'll manage to get COH 2 out before **** hits the fan completley, and it's probably their one franchise that could save them...

But that might just be wishful thinking on my part as I'm really looking forward to COH 2 :(
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But if they go down after releasing CoH2 then we won't get the 117 patches or however many it was that we got last time :(
 
I heard that THQ bought the license for the Homeworld series some years back and were hoping for Relic to develop the third game in the series. The likelihood of this happening is now slim-to-none and I'm pretty bummed about that fact :\ I absolutely love the Homeworld series... Shame as well for THQ. It's a publisher I've got a lot of time for, personally.
 
Surely people will buy the licences, homeworld might live again, warhammer might not be canned or reduced, etc etc.
I'd have thought a 40K MMo made properly would be great fun.
 
Inb4 EA takeover.

I can imagine it going well for WH40K and CoH franchises. Just like it did for Red Alert and Command & Conquer games...

jahujames said:
I heard that THQ bought the license for the Homeworld series some years back and were hoping for Relic to develop the third game in the series. The likelihood of this happening is now slim-to-none and I'm pretty bummed about that fact :\ I absolutely love the Homeworld series... Shame as well for THQ. It's a publisher I've got a lot of time for, personally.
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Wait, are you suggesting that there will be no Homeworld reboot? :(

I hope not, it's one of the best space strategies of all time.
 
Relic will survive, they have done most of the games that made money for THQ in the past few years. With CoH2 due for release and the license of Warhammer40K, there will be a bidding war to snap them up.

I hope they get a publisher with the clout to aquire the Homeworld rights and make Homeworld 3 :p
 
Good thing imo. If relic can get the rights off thq for homeworld then relic can leave then pop on kickstarter get the money for homeworld in about a day and make hw3. :)

Same thing for Volition kinda, leave thq go on kickstarter for freespace 3 or something like it if they cant get the ip rights back.
 
Weazle said:
Relic will survive, they have done most of the games that made money for THQ in the past few years. With CoH2 due for release and the license of Warhammer40K, there will be a bidding war to snap them up.

I hope they get a publisher with the clout to aquire the Homeworld rights and make Homeworld 3 :p
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I hope they go it alone.
 
SkeeterUK said:
Good thing imo. If relic can get the rights off thq for homeworld then relic can leave then pop on kickstarter get the money for homeworld in about a day and make hw3. :)

Same thing for Volition kinda, leave thq go on kickstarter for freespace 3 or something like it if they cant get the ip rights back.
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Wouldn't they have to buy out of their contract with THQ in that case? Does Relic have any money of their own or is it all part of THQ's depts?
 
Weazle said:
I hope they get a publisher with the clout to aquire the Homeworld rights and make Homeworld 3 :p
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Why on earth THQ haven't done this themselves just beggars belief. I'm a big fan of CoH but I've played it to death now and have very little interest in CoH2 it just doesn't add enough of a change for me.

They seem desperate to copy the Call of Duty model but people are wise to that now.
 
I would be well gutted at the lack of any warhammer games being released i personally really loved space marine had have been itching for a 2nd game! also the dawn of war series was really good and metro another one of my favs :(
 
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